Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Public Safety & Security (PSS) Division recently received a new $7.8 million critical infrastructure security system contract award. Under the contract award, Kratos will design, engineer, deploy, and integrate into command and control infrastructure a leading technology security system for a mass transportation authority in a major city and metropolitan area in the United States.

The security system that Kratos will be deploying will include video surveillance, analytics, access control and certain other specialized security related assets. Due to customer specific and other considerations, no additional information will be provided related to this contract award.

Ben Goodwin, President of Kratos’ PSS Division, said, "Protecting mass transportation assets is a critically important responsibility, and the entire PSS organization is proud to have been selected the security system integrator for this complex deployment. Kratos’ PSS business is currently deploying specialized security systems at certain of our country’s most important strategic assets, critical infrastructure and public venues, and this new customer engagement will be a very high profile program within our company."

Eric DeMarco, President and CEO of Kratos said, "All of Kratos is pleased to have recently received this very important new contract award. These types of opportunities — large new sophisticated security system deployments in the largest cities in the country.[…]